I wish to read e-mail messages from Outlook Express which have been generated 

by my web site via a mail form.



The mail form produces structured (sort of) e-mails (enquiries / orders - I 

hope - etc).  What I need to do is read them into my Access application for 

processing.



Basically I want to run an Access process which will offer up the unread mail 

in the in-box, allow me to select a mail item then read the data in to my 

Access application so I can validate it and store it away.



At the moment I am struggling to Access to pull up Outlook mail messages - 

any ideas?

> I wish to read e-mail messages from Outlook Express which have been 

generated 

> by my web site via a mail form.

> 

> The mail form produces structured (sort of) e-mails (enquiries / orders - 

I 

> hope - etc).  What I need to do is read them into my Access application 

for 

> processing.

> 

> Basically I want to run an Access process which will offer up the unread 

mail 

> in the in-box, allow me to select a mail item then read the data in to my 

> Access application so I can validate it and store it away.

> 

> At the moment I am struggling to Access to pull up Outlook mail messages 

- 

> any ideas?

> 





try this:

this will scan your inbox and look for a subject , it will then append a table.



first create a table 'tblTempTable' and copy the following code into a new module.

This code will search for mail with the subject 'TEST' and populate the table.

Change this to search for what you need.

 











Private Sub FindMail()

    Dim rs As Recordset

    Dim OutLookApp As Outlook.Application

    Dim OLInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

    Dim OLInboxItems As Outlook.Items

    Dim OLMailobject As Object

    Dim SubjectLine As String

    

    

    Set OutLookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

    Set OLInbox = OutLookApp.GetNamespace("Mapi").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

    Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("tblTempTable")

    

    SubjectLine = "Test"

    If SubjectLine <> "" Then

        Set OLInboxItems = OLInbox.Items.Restrict("[Subject] = """ & SubjectLine & """")

    Else

        Set OLInboxItems = OLInbox.Items

    End If

    For Each OLMailobject In OLInboxItems

    

            rs.AddNew

            rs!Subject = OLMailobject.Subject

            rs!sentby = OLMailobject.SenderName

            rs!To = OLMailobject.To

            rs!Message = OLMailobject.Body

            rs!Date = OLMailobject.SentOn

            rs.Update

           

        

    Next

    

    Set OutLookApp = Nothing

    Set OLInbox = Nothing

    Set OLInboxItems = Nothing

    Set OLMailobject = Nothing

    Set rs = Nothing

End Sub

I got Mike Day's code to work apart from two bizarre things (see orginal code 

I am using below)



1. When I run access the Outlook it keeps returning the same 4 'records' - 

one e-mail twice and 2 others - even though I have deleted one of the old 

mails and added a new one matching the test criteria, restarted the 

applications, rebooted the machine, compacted outlook and scratched my head a 

lot.  



2. The attempt to build the record set produces a type mismatch (run time 

error 13) (for testing I have been outputting to a file) on the line



 Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("tblTempTable")



in the code below, I thought I had all the libraries open but for the life of 

me I cannot identify the cause of the mismatch



(note, in the running version I have replaved the references to rs with a 

text file which I print the details to, and the body type is HTML)



Private Sub FindMail()

   Dim rs As Recordset

   Dim OutLookApp As Outlook.Application

   Dim OLInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

   Dim OLInboxItems As Outlook.Items

   Dim OLMailobject As Object

   Dim SubjectLine As String

   

   

   Set OutLookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

   Set OLInbox = 

OutLookApp.GetNamespace("Mapi").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

   Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("tblTempTable")

   

   SubjectLine = "Test"

 If SubjectLine <> "" Then

       Set OLInboxItems = OLInbox.Items.Restrict("[Subject] = """ & 

SubjectLine & """")

   Else

       Set OLInboxItems = OLInbox.Items

   End If

   For Each OLMailobject In OLInboxItems

   

           rs.AddNew

           rs!Subject = OLMailobject.Subject

           rs!sentby = OLMailobject.SenderName

           rs!To = OLMailobject.To

           rs!Message = OLMailobject.Body

           rs!Date = OLMailobject.SentOn

           rs.Update

              

   Next

   

   Set OutLookApp = Nothing

   Set OLInbox = Nothing

   Set OLInboxItems = Nothing

   Set OLMailobject = Nothing

   Set rs = Nothing

End Sub